Biomass energy is one of the potential renewable energy sources in the world. As the most common biomass materials, plants, wood, and waste are familiar to people and widely used in a broad range of industries. [1][2][3][4][5] Biomass materials like wood and plants are supposed to be converted into suitable forms of energy through direct combustion, which can be grown energy crops, forest residues, food processing, horticulture, or human waste from sewage plants. Meanwhile, fuel and electricity are the most useful energy forms. Therefore, researchers are attempting to develop more efficient ways to use biomass as fuel and produce more biomass materials for energy production. Over the past decades, biomass energy has been considered to be modernized and popular. However, the high moisture content of fresh biomass materials can decrease the energy efficiency of the conversion process and increase the emission of pollutants.
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